Shane (film)
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film from Paramount, noted for its landscape cinematography and contributions to the genre.
Shane Alan Ladd, a skilled, laconic gunslinger with a mysterious past, rides out of the desert and into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming some time after enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. At dinner with a pioneer homesteader, Joe Starrett Van Heflin and his wife, Marian Jean Arthur, he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valleys homesteaders. The ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker Emile Meyer is trying to run them out and seize their land. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts.At the towns general store, Shane, Starrett and other homesteaders are loading up supplies. Shane enters the saloon adjacent to the store, where Rykers men are drinking, and orders a soda pop. Chris Calloway Ben Johnson, one of Rykers men, throws a shot of whiskey on Shanes shirt. Smell like a man he taunts. Shane doesnt rise to the bait but at their next encounter Shane orders two shots of whiskey, pours one on Calloways shirt and throws the other in his face, then knocks him to the ground. A brawl ensues Shane prevails, with Starretts help. Ryker declares that the next time they meet, the air will be filled with gunsmoke. ........
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